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Diffusion Path Identification of Public Opinion Involving Enterprise Green Technology Adoption: An Interpretive-Structural-Modeling-Based Approach

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  • De Xia

    (School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430074, China)

  • Nian Xia

    (School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430074, China)

  • Yishi Zhang

    (School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430074, China)

  • Jiwei Xiong

    (School of Management, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China)

  • Ruilin Zhu

    (Management School, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YX, UK)

Abstract

With the increasing information transparency of business operations’ environmental influences, public opinion plays an important role in the green technology adoption of enterprises. Identifying the diffusion path of public opinion involving the process of enterprise green technology adoption is a significant task to verify the triggering mechanisms among the external factors and internal ones. An appropriate framework may help to clarify how the sustainability elements of public opinion are introduced to green technology adoption. Therefore, an interpretive structural-modeling (ISM)-based approach was applied to explore the basic transmission process and path of public opinion involving green technology adoption in enterprise practices. From the pressure of public opinion to the stakeholders involved, as well as the corresponding operational environmental activities, this study explored the psychological behavior of internal and external stakeholders and tried to clarify what the driving elements of green technology adoption are and how they relate to each other. Based on the field data collected from practitioners with Chinese contextual experience, the driving elements of the enablers of green technology adoption by enterprises were identified, and the fundamental triggering mechanisms of the public opinion pressure among them were analyzed. Thereafter, the influence of internal and external stakeholders involving green technology adoption and their corresponding behaviors under the pressure of public opinion were determined and expounded comprehensively, which illustrates the diffusion path of how public opinion influences the operational green technology adoption. This may narrow the gap between public environmental expectation and business operations. Finally, the managerial implications and the limitations of this study were concluded. The explanatory corresponding ISM model established in this study enriches the literature on the theoretical research of the mechanisms of green technology adoption.

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  • De Xia & Nian Xia & Yishi Zhang & Jiwei Xiong & Ruilin Zhu, 2022. "Diffusion Path Identification of Public Opinion Involving Enterprise Green Technology Adoption: An Interpretive-Structural-Modeling-Based Approach," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(5), pages 1-15, February.
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